The first ship of an international flotilla bringing humanitarian aid to Cuba has arrived in Havana loaded with solar panels, bicycles, food and medicine as the island’s economic and energy crises deepen.
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Activists wave Cuban and Palestinian flags from the vessel Maguro, arriving from Mexico with humanitarian aid as part of the “Nuestra America,” or Our America convoy, in Havana Bay, Cuba, Tuesday, March 24, 2026. Activists wave Cuban and Palestinian flags from the vessel Maguro, arriving from Mexico with humanitarian aid as part of the “Nuestra America,” or Our America convoy, in Havana Bay, Cuba, Tuesday, March 24, 2026. Activists wave Cuban and Palestinian flags from the vessel Maguro, arriving from Mexico with humanitarian aid as part of the “Nuestra America,” or Our America convoy, in Havana Bay, Cuba, Tuesday, March 24, 2026. The vessel Maguro, behind, arrives from Mexico with humanitarian aid as part of the “Nuestra America,” or Our America Convoy, in Havana Bay, Cuba, Tuesday, March 24, 2026. Activists wave Cuban and Palestinian flags from the vessel Maguro, arriving from Mexico with humanitarian aid as part of the “Nuestra America,” or Our America Convoy, in Havana Bay, Cuba, Tuesday, March 24, 2026. Activists wave Cuban and Palestinian flags from the vessel Maguro, arriving from Mexico with humanitarian aid as part of the “Nuestra America,” or Our America Convoy, in Havana Bay, Cuba, Tuesday, March 24, 2026. Activists wave Cuban and Palestinian flags from the vessel Maguro, arriving from Mexico with humanitarian aid as part of the “Nuestra America,” or Our America convoy, in Havana Bay, Cuba, Tuesday, March 24, 2026. Activists wave Cuban and Palestinian flags from the vessel Maguro, arriving from Mexico with humanitarian aid as part of the “Nuestra America,” or Our America convoy, in Havana Bay, Cuba, Tuesday, March 24, 2026. Activists wave Cuban and Palestinian flags from the vessel Maguro, arriving from Mexico with humanitarian aid as part of the “Nuestra America,” or Our America convoy, in Havana Bay, Cuba, Tuesday, March 24, 2026. Activists wave Cuban and Palestinian flags from the vessel Maguro, arriving from Mexico with humanitarian aid as part of the “Nuestra America,” or Our America convoy, in Havana Bay, Cuba, Tuesday, March 24, 2026. Activists wave Cuban and Palestinian flags from the vessel Maguro, arriving from Mexico with humanitarian aid as part of the “Nuestra America,” or Our America convoy, in Havana Bay, Cuba, Tuesday, March 24, 2026. Activists wave Cuban and Palestinian flags from the vessel Maguro, arriving from Mexico with humanitarian aid as part of the “Nuestra America,” or Our America convoy, in Havana Bay, Cuba, Tuesday, March 24, 2026. The vessel Maguro, behind, arrives from Mexico with humanitarian aid as part of the “Nuestra America,” or Our America Convoy, in Havana Bay, Cuba, Tuesday, March 24, 2026. The vessel Maguro, behind, arrives from Mexico with humanitarian aid as part of the “Nuestra America,” or Our America Convoy, in Havana Bay, Cuba, Tuesday, March 24, 2026. arrived in Havana on Tuesday loaded with solar panels, bicycles, food and medicine as the island’s economic and energy crises deepen.“This type of economic warfare shouldn’t exist, this attitude of a pirate state that doesn’t respect international law,” activist Thiago Ávila told reporters as he disembarked from the ship, christened “Granma 2.0” in homage to the ship that ferried revolutionary leader “These ships are a drop in an ocean of need…at the same time, it’s a gesture of solidarity,” Ávila said.The flotilla is part of a caravan called “Our America Convoy to Cuba,” with more than 650 participants from 33 countries who arrived on the island last weekend withVisitors included British parliamentarian Jeremy Corbyn, Colombian Sen. Clara López, Spanish politician Pablo Iglesias, and U.S. labor leader Chris Smalls. The popular Irish hip-hop trio Kneecap also participated.imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump in late January to bring pressure for a change in the island’s political model has compounded five years of profound economic crisis stemming from the paralysis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and previous U.S. sanctions against the Caribbean nation.Trump and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio — whose parents emigrated from Cuba in the 1950s — have said they were prepared toCuba’s Deputy Minister of Energy and Mines Argelio Abad Vigo last week said the country has gone three months without receiving supplies of diesel, fuel oil, gasoline, jet fuel, and liquefied petroleum gas, all of which are vital for the economy and electricity generation. Cuba produces barely 40% of the fuel Meanwhile, a Hong Kong-flagged vessel that was reportedly carrying 200,000 barrels of diesel from Russia to Cuba has instead docked in Venezuela, according to MarineTraffic, a project that tracks the movement of vessels around the globe using publicly available data. Leaders from several countries and social organizations have warned that Cuba could be on the verge of a humanitarian crisis. Countries including Mexico, China, Brazil and Italy and non-governmental groups from the United States are among those that have sent aid. The international aid is usually distributed free of charge by the state through the network of stores that Cubans use to buy food, except in cases where a donor specifies that a shipment should have a specific destination, such as medicine for hospitals.
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